Almost half (46%) of first time buyers are considering turning to shared equity and shared ownership schemes to enable them to buy their first home, according to latest research from Lloyds TSB. Of these, one in four (26%) said affordable housing schemes were their only option for getting onto the property...

A small farm located in a rural Shropshire hamlet sold for £500,000 at a public auction on Wednesday evening. Brockton Farm, Brockton, near Much Wenlock was sold by auctioneers Halls on behalf of Mr Glyn Morris at The Feathers, Brockton to a buyer who had recently returned to the UK from North Carolina, USA. The sale comprised an attractive four bedroomed stone house, stabling, an agricultural shed, a 1.73-acre paddock and 10 acres of fertile pasture and arable land. Located in the h...